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Hello everyone,
One of my interests in popular culture, is people's fascination with the irrational. I tend to be quite cartesian, so a lot of times, I find conspiracies, (Like the DaVinci Code), a bit absurd, and I found the movie quite laughable.
Recently, on a sleepless night, I went to the new books.google.com site where one can browse books virtually and even search in the text of books. Of course I typed "Long Hair" men, and came across a book by John Keel (Who authored "The Mothman Prophecy"), and found a passage in Page 102 (If you own or come across this book in the library or Google Search) which links extraterrestrials with the current trend for long hair. Very funny.
http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1880090163&id=EIWWpUOtdgUC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA101&printsec=8&dq=%22long+hair%22+keel&sig=-acqMdPCTgqiUMA69bBG9RCgjk0
If the link doesn't work, simply go to "books.google.com", and use the search expression "long hair" Keel - and you will be taken directly to page 101 of the book, where sightings of long-haired men before the sixties are explained, but in page 102 in the second paragraph, you can read about Jerome Clarke, "a leading Ufologist" state his theory about long hair :)
For the younger folks on the site, I grew up in a time (the late sixties, and most of the seventies and eighties), where people talked about UFO's without passing off as a nut case, because the subject was trendy then. In the fifties, when the trend started, a chap called "Georges Adamsky" claimed to have seen a saucer land in the California desert, and out came an alien with long, blonde hair to his shoulders, who warned him about how atom bombs are dangerous for the universe. Georges Adamsky went on a lecture tour and wrote a couple of books. His fame dwindled as his stories did not hold up to scientific rigor. His alien, he claimed came from Venus, and by the early sixties, it was known that the temperature on Venus's surface was hot enough to melt lead. However, before the space age, in the fifties, people really let their imaginations go wild.
And now - One more funny Picture of a long-haired alien (As perceived by people who have never seen a long-haired guy in his life :)
ahh aliens....i used to have an obsession/fair of them when i was young...if i think about them long enough i probably will be again LOL!!!
I wouldn't call the Da Vinci Code a conspiracy. Dan Brown's source material itself is questionable, and I believe it was confirmed by the author(s) as a hoax, but I can't remember. At any rate, calling something that differs in your religious views a conspiracy is a bit juvenile, if you ask me. No offense meant to you, just making a general statement. Sometimes it's a genuine conspiracy, but in this case, particularly since you specified the book, I'd watch my language.
